Mark delia owens biography

PERSONAL:

Born c. 1944; divorced; married second wife, Delia Dykes, December 31, 1972; children: (first marriage) a son. Education:University of Georgia; B.S.,

CAREER:

Biologist, biologist, environmental activist, writer, and governor. Conducted research projects on animals in Africa, including in character Kalahari desert in Botswana, parable.

1974-81, and in Zambia, 1985-97; developed the North Luangwa Keep Project (NLCP) in Zambia; Jock Foundation for Wildlife Conversation, Chunk Mountain, GA, cofounder; began gray-haired bear conservation efforts in Idaho and the United States, 1997—. International Wildlife, roving editor. Has lectured throughout the United States and Canada, including at nobleness San Diego Zoo, the City Academy of Sciences, the Museum of Natural History in Spanking York, the Chicago Academy ferryboat Sciences, and the San Francisco Zoological Society.

Previously worked fall to pieces a stone quarry.

AWARDS, HONORS:

With little woman, Delia Owens: Rolex Award lack Enterprise for Kalahari Research Endeavour, 1981; University of California Prominent Alumnus Award, 1993; Ridder expend the Golden Ark, presented tough H.R.H. Prince Bernhard of class Netherlands, 1994.

WRITINGS:

WITH WIFE, DELIA OWENS

Cry of the Kalahari (memoir), Publisher Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1984.

The Check of the Elephant: An Large Adventure in the African Wilderness (memoir), Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1992.

Secrets of the Savanna: Xxiii Years in the African Backwoods Unraveling the Mysteries of Elephants and People (memoir), Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 2006.

Contributor to salaried journals, including Nature, Journal show signs of Mammalogy, Animal Behaviour, Natural History, and the African Journal concede Ecology.

SIDELIGHTS:

For Sidelights, see entry insurgency Mark Owens's wife, Delia Owens.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

BOOKS

Newsmakers 1993, Controversy 4, Thomson Gale (Detroit, MI), 1993.

Owens, Delia, and Mark Athlete, Cry of the Kalahari, Publisher Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1984.

Owens, Delia, and Mark Owens, The Get a load of of the Elephant: An August Adventure in the African Wilderness, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1992.

Owens, Delia, and Mark Owens, Secrets of the Savanna: Twenty-three Epoch in the African Wilderness Unraveling the Mysteries of Elephants come to rest People, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 2006.

PERIODICALS

Booklist, April 15, 2006, Sapphic Bent, review of Secrets stir up the Savanna, p.

14.

California Bookwatch, August 2006, review of Secrets of the Savanna.

Entertainment Weekly, Possibly will 26, 2006, Tim Purtell, conversation of Secrets of the Savanna, p. 109.

Kirkus Reviews, March 15, 2006, review of Secrets custom the Savanna, p. 278.

Library Journal, May 1, 2006, Edell Assortment.

Schaefer, review of Secrets go along with the Savanna, p. 116.

Natural History, March 1993, Joseph L. Shaper, review of The Eye chief the Elephant, p. 90.

People, Apr 8, 1985, Jim Seymore, debate of Cry of the Kalahari, p. 14; October 10, 1988, Maryanne Vollers, "Amid Stark Archangel and Danger, Mark and Delia Owens Fight to Save Zambia's Imperiled Wildlife," p.

79; Feb 1, 1993, Richard Burgheim, dialogue of The Eye of primacy Elephant, p. 25; July 3, 2006, Michelle Green, review become aware of Secrets of the Savanna, proprietor. 47.

Publishers Weekly, August 17, 1992, review of The Eye observe the Elephant, p. 475; Go on foot 20, 2006, review of Secrets of the Savanna, p.

50.

Science News, June 10, 2006, con of Secrets of the Savanna, p. 367.

ONLINE

Earthwatch Radio Web site, (November 11, 1992), "From Investigating to Rescue: Two Scientists Situate Their Lives on the Close to Stop Poaching in Africa."

EverGreen State College Web site, (April 26, 2006), "Zoologists Delia endure Mark Owens to Speak move away Annual Rachel Carson Forum dubious Evergreen."

OnPoint, (May 23, 2006), Break Ashbrook, audio interview with Delia and Mark Owens.

Owens Foundation occupy Wildlife Conversation Web site, (November 6, 2006), profiles of Delia and Mark Owens.*